from 11:00          Registration: Conference Office
 

Opening
 

14:00 - 15:00      Plenary Session I: Welcome   |   Chair: Markus Hanisch
                            (Will be simultaneously translated into German)

• Markus Hanisch, Chair of the conference, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Michael Kämper-van den Boogaart, Vice President for Acadamic and International Affairs, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Knut Nevermann, State Secretary of Education and Science, Berlin
• Christoph Linzbach, Federal Ministry of Senior Citizens, Youth and Family Affairs, Berlin

• Eckhard Ott, Chairman of the Board of Directors, German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation

15:00 - 15:30         Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00      Plenary Session II: Key Notes     |   Chair: Markus Hanisch

                            (Will be simultaneously translated into German)

• Global challenges and the International Year of Cooperatives
  Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Ass. Secretary General, United Nations DESA, New York

• Rural producer organizations in the 21st century
  Marie-Hélène Collion, Lead Agriculturist, World Bank, Washington D.C.

17:00                  Opening of the Conference Exhibitions and Poster Sessions

• Posters Session, Cooperative History, Best Practice Cooperative Enterprises 

• Cooperative museums, historical exhibitions, selection of cooperative enterprises, and research poster will be presented.

19:00                   Conference Dinner      Hotel Radisson Blue, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 3

Thursday, March 22

• Coordination in cooperatives versus IoFs
  Li Feng; George Hendrikse

• Can cooperatives compete with privately owned firms regarding product quality and reputation?
  Guenter Schamel

• Customer commitment: comparing cooperatives and IOFs in farm supplies
  Jos Bijman; Frans Verhees

• The efficiency of cooperatives and investor-owned companies: an application to Polish dairy sector
  Katarzyna Aleksandra Gradziuk

9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I b: Linking producers and consumers    |   Chair: Markus Hanisch
 

• Consumer-producer alliance in the food value chain: rationales and evolution of Sanchoku
  Akira Kurimoto

• The role of producer-consumer cooperative federation to tackle the problem of market failure in agriculture: a case study from Hyderabad, India
  Zakir Hussain Shaik

• Community-supported agriculture and consumer cooperatives in India
  Nina Osswald

• Korea's consumer cooperatives and SCM (Supply Chain Management): Using system dynamics simulation
  Dasom Kim; Sang Sun Park; Seungkwon Jang

9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I c: Cooperative provision of services    |   Chair: Larry Haiven
 

• An alternative to state or private delivery of public utilities: the role of cooperatives in Canada’s rural areas
  Larry Haiven

• A new database on financial services cooperatives: description and first result
  Jean Roy; Yenni Redjah

• Restructuring and reorganization post liberalization of cooperatives in Uganda
  Nana Afranaa Kwapong; Markus Hanisch

9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I d: Managing the dairy market    |   Chair: Martin Odening
 

 
9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I e: Policies towards cooperatives   |   Chair: Reiner Doluschitz

• Determinants of milk quality and productivity among dairy cooperative members and non-members in Ethiopia
  Clarietta Chagwiza
• Prices paid and value for members: dairy processing and marketing cooperatives in three Italian provinces
  Chiara Cazzuffi
• Strategies and effects of milk producers´ organisations in the Czech Republic
  Tomas Ratinger; Iveta Boskova; Miluse Abrahamova
• Price variation in farm gate milk prices and the cooperative yardstick revisited: panel evidence from the European dairy sectors
  Markus Hanisch; Jens Rommel; Malte Müller
• Public policy support for agricultural cooperatives: an organizational economics approach
  Constantine Iliopoulos
• Cooperatives and producers’ organizations in Polish agriculture: legal and economic aspects
  Aneta Suchoń
• Selective award of a public privilege: an analytical evaluation of an obstacle to the growth of credit unions in the UK
  Richard A. Werner

11:00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II a: Access to finance   |   Chair: Nathanael Diba Ojong
 

• Taking them seriously: credit unions as vehicles for microfinance delivery in Cameroon
  Nathanael Diba Ojong
• Agriculture cooperative financial institutions: the Portuguese case
  Maria de Fátima Ferreiro; Sérgio Lagoa

• Microfinance lending program of cooperatives in Cebu, Philippines: Realities, benefits and women’s participation
  Fedinand Tesado Abocejo

• Micro-level cooperative financing and support structures as a systems-level development tactic
  Robert J. McIntyre

11:00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II b: Cooperative performance and management in financial crisis   |   Chair: Bouke de Vries

• How much and for how long? The growth and the dynamics of Italian cooperative banks from 2004 to 2009
  Ivana Catturani; Maria Lucia Stefani
• Performance of European cooperative banks in the recent financial and economic crisis
  Nicole Smolders; Ian Koetsier; Bouke de Vries
• Cooperative banks in an Era of Financial Crisis: The case of the Irish credit union movement
  Robert Bruce Graham
• Lending stabilizer - German cooperative banks during the financial crisis
  Andreas Bley

11: 00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II c: Central and Eastern Europe Country Session  |   Chair: Ivan Boevsky
 

• Values, social dimensions and results from the development of worker producers cooperatives in Bulgaria
  Julia Doitchinova; Albena Miteva; Ivan Kanchev
• Visions concerning the modernization of consumer co-operation  and the increase of its impact upon the socio-economic development of the Republic of Moldova
  Larisa Savga; Ghenadie Savga; Tatiana Surugiu
• Factors influencing farmers' willingness to organize for collective marketing in Slovenia
  Andrej Udovc
• Key issues of sustainable policies for promoting the cooperative movement in the Republic of Moldova

   Claudia Melinte; Victoria Trofimov

• Role of mutual insurers and insurance cooperatives for risk management in agriculture on the example of Poland
  Irena Jedrzejczy; Magdalena Józefecka

11:00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II d: Theorizing the cooperative idea   |   Chair: Vladislav Valentinov   
 

• Understanding the rural third sector: insights from Veblen and Bogdanov
  Vladislav Valentinov

• Member involvement in small and large farm supply cooperatives
  Jerker Nilsson; Li Feng; Anna Friis

• On the survival of agricultural cooperatives: evidence from an econometric study of age dependence in organizational mortality
  Damien Rousselière; Iragaël Joly

• Cooperative Leadership in Rural Africa: Evidence and Implications from Ghana
  Gian Nicola Francesconi; Fleur Wouterse

14:00 - 15:30      Plenary Session III

• One hundred years of academic output in peer reviewed journals: the evolution of cooperative research and the way ahead
  Michael Cook, University of Missouri, USA

Subsequent

• Award ceremony: OIKOCREDIT Young Researcher's Award. More details are provided here >>
• Showcase: Conference events in the International Year 2012

15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30      Parallel Session III a: Cooperative management of natural resources    |   Chair: Konrad Hagedorn
 

• The increasing importance of cooperative institutions for sustainable natural resource governance
  Konrad Hagedorn
• Community-based cooperation for transition towards clean cooking fuel
  Bibhu P. Nayak; Veena Aggarwal; Christine Werthmann
• Collective environmental governance as key instrument of climate change adaptation with a landscape approach
  Stefanie Christmann; Aden Aw-Hassan

16:00 - 17:30      Parallel Session III b: The status and inclusion of women    |   Chair: Ingrid Schmale

• Impact of Micro-Finance on the Development of Women through Self-Help Groups in Karnataka (India)
  Bhavya Venkatesh Kodigehalli; Umesh K.B.; Saikumar C. Bharamappanavara

• Does participation in microcredit cooperatives improve the value of women´s time use? Evidence from India
  P. Mahendra Varman

• Women Self-Help Groups as cooperative ventures for generating social capital and targeting poverty in rural Rajasthan
  Asutosh Pradhan

16:00 - 17:30      Parallel Session III c: Coops in poverty alleviation   |   Chair: Hans-H. Münkner
 

• Cooperatives for development policy – concepts and misconceptions
  Hans-H.Münkner

• The effects of coffee marketing cooperative performance on member household characteristics in Ethiopia: the case of coffee cooperatives in Sidama Zone
  Amsaya Anteneh Woubie

• What do we know about cooperatives and poverty reduction? A literature review
  Nana Afranaa Kwapong; Markus Hanisch

• Searching for viable income-generating alternatives - The case of coffee cooperatives in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Veracruz, Mexico
  Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert; Ludger Brenner

16:00 - 17:30      Parallel Session III d: Globalization of markets   |   Chair: Petri Ollila
 

• The international development of French cooperative groups: the influence of territorial constraint
  Maryline Filippi; Olivier Frey; Stéphanie Pérès
• Cooperative responses to changes in the institutional and economic environment
  Lampros Lamprinakis
• Charactersistics of membership in agricultural cooperatives

    Petri Ollila; Jerker Nilsson; Claudia von Brömssen

• Institutional mechanisms to strengthen small farmers’ inclusion in evolving agricultural marketing chains: contract farming and farmers organizations

    Giulia Secondini

Side event: Podium discussion

(in German language)

• 19:00 – 21.00    Mehr Wert durch Kooperation   |   Chair: Andreas Wieg

Friday, March 23

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV a: Mastering demographic change   |   Chair: Markus Hanisch
 

• Alter leben - Getting old with a good Mode of Life- Self-determined Living with a combined Solution of Technical Improvement and Services
  Axel Viehweger; Alexandra Brylok; Ulrich Zimmermann

• Crisis of globalization and rural multipurpose co-operatives in Japan
  Takeshi Murata

• Member value in cooperatives
  Peter Suter; Markus Gmuer

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV  b: Cooperative Democracy: The formation of Social Capital   |   Chair: Jennifer Meyer-Ueding
 

• Members`organizations? Lacks of autonomy and the difficult proportion of Hyderabad’s co-operatives and RWAs to participative governance
  Jennifer Meyer-Ueding

• Enhancing cooperatives with the ethics of social capital
  Patricia Illingworth

• Self Help Groups (SHGs) ontogenesis and urban poor access to service deliveries in municipal areas
  Saikumar C. Bharamappanavara
• Networking against poverty
  Guzmán Oveja Martínez
   

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV c: Studies in the foundations of cooperatives   |   Chair: Philipp Degens
 

• Civic Capital and the Vertical Integration of Service Provision: Evidence from Italy
  Matthias Bürker; G. Alfredo Minerva
• Heterogeneous Producers’ Cooperatives and Corporate Social Responsibility
  Luisa Giallonardo; Marcella Mulino

• Success factors of co-operative founding processes
  Philipp Degens; Johannes Blome-Drees                                       

• Overcoming the open source dilemma - How cooperatives enhance the internet community to develop open source software for industry and commercial users
  Andreas Wieg; Dirk Kalmring; Carsten Emde

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV d: New developments in cooperative organization   |   Chair: Nicole Göler von Ravensburg
 

• Pupils‘ cooperatives and the acquisition of competences for sustainable development
  Nicole Göler von Ravensburg; Winfried Köppler; Felix Schulz-Stahlbaum

• The co-operative as a legal form for “liberal professions”? The example of lawyers in Austria
  Elisabeth Reiner; Dietmar Rößl
• Cooperatives as social integration instruments in the Basque country (CAPV)
  Itziar Villafañez Perez

 
8:45 - 10:15      Parallel Session IV e: Cooperative management of natural resources    |   Chair: Dimitris Zikos
 

• Understanding policy-related collective action to address farming challenges of European water management
  Andreas Thiel; Laurence Amblard; Esther Blanco; Sergio Villamayor Tomas; Dimitrios Zikos
• How do Physical and Social Factors affect Village-Level Irrigation: An Institutional Analysis of Water Governance in North China
  Xiaoxi Wang; Ilona M. Otto

• Institutions and the R&D of GM-crops
  Valborg Kvakkestad

 
 
10:15 - 10:45   Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V a: Governing the cooperative   |   Chair: George Hendrikse
 

• Board structure variety in cooperatives
  George W. Hendrikse; Jerker Nilsson

• Ownership and control in agricultural cooperatives
  Fabio Chaddad; Constantine Iliopoulos

• Governance and performance – analysing patterns of internal governance in Agricultural Cooperatives across the EU27

  Markus Hanisch; Jens Rommel; Jos Bijman

• Adapting corporate governance schools of thought to the cooperative model
  Michael Cook                                        

• What drives agribusiness co-ops performance over time? A longitudinal survey-based study
  Panagiota Sergaki; Theodoros Benos; Nikolaos Kalogeras

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V b: Governing the reform of the energy sector   |   Chair: Lars Holstenkamp
 

• Role of multipliers in German energy cooperatives
  Richard Robert Volz

• Are consumers willing to pay more for electricity from cooperatives?
  preliminary results from an online choice experiment
  Jakob Robert Müller; Jens Rommel; Julian Sagebiel

• Governance and financing of German energy cooperatives
  Jakob Robert Müller; Lars Holstenkamp

• Cooperation in infrastructure governance: overcoming coordination failures and conflicts in power provision for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India
  Christian Kimmich

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V c: Challenges in cooperative practice   |   Chair: Holger Blisse
 

• The taz cooperative
  Konny Gellenbeck

• Oikocredit - Cooperative investment in people
  Karl Hildebrandt

• Executing the co-operative purpose via acquisition of an IOF: the Pohjola case
  Saila Rosas; Iiro Jussila; Pasi Tuominen

• Co-operative enterprise against finance investors
  Mathias Fiedler

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V d: Policies towards cooperative development   |   Chair: Florian Roßwog
 

• Cooperative response of cotton-growing farmers in Uzbekistan to national cotton policy burden and regional water scarcity
  Nodir Djanibekov; Utkur Djanibekov

• Rural credit cooperatives in India: responses to reforms
  Sharad N. Bansal; Girish Thakkar

• Opportunities and threats of the new regulation and supervision structure for savings and credit cooperatives in Mexico
  Florian Roßwog; José Manuel Bautista Serrano

• Brazilian cooperativism: cooperative act
  Rafael Carvalho Cunha

12:30 - 13:15    Plenary Session IV: Cooperatives responses to global challenges

• Results and outlook

requested: Carlo Borzaga, George Hendrikse, Hans-H. Münkner,  Marie-Hélène Collion, Markus Hanisch, Michael Cook, Eckhard Ott,
 

13:15            Lunch
14:15            Side Events

• Verband Sächsischer Wohnungsgenossenschaften e.V.: meeting for the foundation of "Global Cooperatives"
• EU-Tender „Support for Farmer’s Cooperatives“: internal project workshop